I Went to Surprise My Husband at Work—His Colleague Looked at Me With Tears and Asked, “He Hasn’t Told You Anything, Has He?”
Betrayal is dangerous partly because it tries to colonize memory.
It wants every surrounding moment to become false.
I refused eventually.
The anniversary dinner he missed?
Painful.
The morning before it?
We laughed over coffee.
That laughter was real.
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